all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope…

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I…

— Jules Massenet

When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're…

— Ilona Andrews

Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an…

— Billy Collins

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

— Julia Cameron

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families'…

— Adele Logan Alexander

I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

When I say never mind I really mean you should have listened the first time.

— Anonymous

“Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.”

— Nyrae Dawn

Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to figure out…

— Margaret Atwood

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just…

— Richard Dawkins

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the…

— Milan Kundera

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand…

— Ferdinand Foch

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we…

— Dave Matthews

My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always…

— Denzel Washington

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

— Will Rogers